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Date:      Mon, 16 Feb 1998 22:31:00 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Michelle Brownsworth <michelle@eugene.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD as a PPP Dialup Router
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980216222609.11246E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <v0300781cb10d630b0ef2@[206.100.174.69]>

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On Sun, 15 Feb 1998, Michelle Brownsworth wrote:

> Folks, I thought you might help shed some light on the matter discussed
> below in a letter to Jeremy Childs:

I translated Mr. Child's document some time ago and understand the gist of
it.  It needs an update for the new world though ;)

> My LAN at home is a subnet, not part of the C-block of the server to
> which I'm connecting.  And that leads me to my question.  In your
> article, you stated: 
> 
> "The proxyarp option takes care of all the routing, so all you need for the
> remote clients IP addresses are two free IP addresses on the same subnet as
> the server's IP address."

Thanks to advances in modern technology and the fact that you're
gatewaying through another FreeBSD machine makes this point moot.  On your
client side, you can enable proxyarp (or ppp -alias if you're using iijpp)
and proxy the homenet's network through the ppp client.  You can save that
IP subnet for your ISP and simply run your homenet on a fakenet, ie
10.x.x.x.  Any other machines on the homenet will simply proxy through the
ppp client. 

This is of course assuming you're running fairly recent versions of
FreeBSD, ie 2.2.x series OR have updated your ppp to the one at
http://www.freebsd.org/~brian/userppp.html.

> I've reached a point where I clearly need to check my fundamental
> assumptions.  If I'm on the right track then I can concentrate on finding
> the reasons why I'm getting "LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests" errors,
> and why straylight can't "ping localhost" or "ping straylight" once the PPP
> connection is (sort of) made.

That's a client problem; you need to run `add 0 0 HISADDR' after
connecting on the iijppp client.  the LCP timeout is odd, it implies the
ppp connection isn't really starting.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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